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Alya Shandra is the editor-in-chief at Euromaidan Press. She is a civic activist based in Kyiv and an expert in environmental and geography issues. Alya can be contacted at alya.shandra (a) gmail.com, on twitter @AlyaShandra., or FB

Since Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships and capture of 24 sailors on 25 November 2018, Ukraine has been trying to receive international recognition for the captives being prisoners of war. The PACE resolution 2259 (2019) adopted on 24...

The 57-year-old Crimean Tatar activist, who had for 18 years suffered from numerous health conditions, was apprehended at the border checkpoint between Ukraine and Russian-occupied Crimea on 12 December. Like most Crimean Tatars out of the...

This is the fourth year we’re inviting you to join the holiday letter-writing campaign to the Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin of the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign. In 2015, there were 21 Ukrainians jailed on political motives in Russia....

Ukraine has completed the penultimate step before receiving a recognized Orthodox Church independent from Moscow. On 15 December, a Council in Ukraine convened to unify the existing three Orthodox Churches, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of...

On 15 December 2018, Ukraine completed the penultimate step towards attaining the multigenerational dream of independence for its Orthodox Church, hitherto subjugated to Moscow. The Unification Council, although achieving an imperfect...

On 15 December 2018, the Unification Council which brought together delegates from the three Orthodox churches in Ukraine to elect who will head the future unified independent Orthodox Church in Ukraine convened in the St. Sophia Cathedral...

On 12 December 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling to stop the construction of the NordStream2 pipeline and condemned Russia’s aggression in the Kerch Strait, calling for imposing additional targeted sanctions...

On 12 December 2018, the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was awarded the EU Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He was not there to receive it, as he is serving a 20-year sentence in a Siberian prison after Russia...

The 24 sailors Russia has seized and taken captive after a Russian attack on three Ukrainian Navy boats in the Azov Sea are prisoners of war, Ukrainian officials have said. This means that their arrest by Russia until 25 January 2019, and...

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) has published a video reconstructing the timeline of the Russian attack on three Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait on 25 November, in the result of which 24 Ukrainian sailors were...

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The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...